Friday, 9 October 2015

Week 3 [Seminar Notes] - Hollywood Star System

The Hollywood Star System

When we consider the 'star image' we must consider their function inside and out of the film and how they are represented to the public. These could be:

  • Advertising - Magazines, Posters, Make-Up promotion
  • Merchandising - Toys, costume replicas
Films can exhibit resolutions to real life problems and can shape and distort ideologies through contradictions within the narrative.


What is a flapper?
  • A new breed of western woman 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behaviour. 
  • Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.
  • In the United States, popular contempt for Prohibition was a factor in the rise of the flapper as well as the End of WWI, it was caused by the lack of men for women during the war period.



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